If a human posted every 5 min, got 0 upvotes for 20 posts straight, we would ban them for spam. If bots would limit themselves to posting once a day, or once a week, and only post the top-voted non-duplicate post of that timeframe, it would be a dramatic improvement. For once, we might actually see real-lemmy posts along side bot posts, instead of the community being exclusively bots (or 99% bot posts) or exclusively Lemmy users.

I would tell the bot creators myself, except I don’t know how to get in contact with them. Is there a consistent way to contact a bot creator?

  • cheeseburger@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    I finally went into my Lemmy settings on a web browser and unchecked ‘Show Bot Accounts’ after months of tolerating bot posts. It has made a dramatic improvement to my feed.

    There were just too many, and some bot posts that have whole bot comment sections too; that was what put it over the top for me to block all bots.

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Those posts (or rather that ranking) is available already though as a sorting option, with timeframes for a day, week, month, year and all time (as well as 1, 6 and 12 hours). Why do you think a bot for this would be helpful?

    • jeffhykin@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      No that’s my point we CAN’T rank them.

      • for every 1000 reddit posts there are 100,000 reddit up/down voters ranking those posts.
      • Bots completely break this ratio: for every 1000 Lemmy bot posts, there are effectively 10 Lemmy up/down voters.

      It is totally impractical for us to correctly/effectively rank the absolute torrent of posts coming from reddit.

      The bot ERASES the reddit votes; every high quality 1000-reddit-upvote post is surrounded by an ocean of straightup-spam 1-reddit-upvote post.

      Not only that but real Lemmy posts in a community are completely drowned out by bot posts. I can’t even find real users posting in a community because there’s so many bot posts.